WE ARE ARTS ENGINE. THIS IS OUR STORY.

AN IMAGE CAPTURES A FEELING.A STORY CONVEYS A MESSAGE.A MOVIE BECOMES A MOVEMENT.

In the right hands, images, stories and movies have the power to change the world.

We’re committed to raising awareness and generating action around some of today’s most pressing social issues, through the power of images, stories, films and new media. We support, produce, distribute and promote the use of independent media of consequence. In doing so, we’ve become a trusted source of ‘media that matters’—helping shape the conversation around some of the most critical issues in our world. Through our programs we connect filmmakers and media artists with advocates, educators and the general public to address concerns that are often ignored by mainstream media.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish with the right people and a lot of passion. Arts Engine has both. Sure, we face challenges. But our team has the energy and the resolve to keep plugging away until we get the job done— because we know how much is riding on our efforts.”

—Arts Engine Staff Member

ARTS ENGINE: AT A GLANCE

1997. Two visionary activists form a partnership to create social-issue documentaries, driven by the belief that if you tell a compelling story about human issues, using powerful images, you can affect societal change. Katy Chevigny and Julia Pimsleur planted the seeds for the organization that is now Arts Engine, with a commitment to core values and beliefs that continue to inform our mission and our programs to this day:

Inspiring creativity and innovation. Building communities. Empowering individuals. Promoting diversity of voice. Creating a more just world.

Cut to today. The landscape has changed a lot since 1997. Technology has advanced dramatically, with new media and more voices emerging and competing for attention. But the work of independent media makers still shines a light on critical issues that are often overlooked by the mainstream. And Arts Engine remains a trusted source for media that matters. These days, we still create feature-length documentaries, but we do a lot more, as you’ll see in the pages that follow. And through it all, we continue to follow the vision set by Katy and Julia: to drive change by connecting film, technology and community.

“Arts Engine made it possible for me to focus on my craft, to tell the story I needed to tell. They took a genuine interest in my work and gave me a platform I never could have had to complete my project and get the work out in the world.”

—Young Filmmaker

“I’ve been using Media That Matters™ films in my classroom for years, and my students are riveted every time. It’s not just a day at the movies. They’re engaged, animated and they want to learn more after seeing these films. They want to get out there and do something.”

—Educator

“Arts Engine is a rare breed. Nobody else is really doing all that they do in such a cohesive way. They’re not just committed to film and technology, but to spotlighting the work of social justice organizations and providing an alternative chorus to what we hear in the mainstream media every day. By amplifying our voices they’re getting our message heard by more people and enhancing our work in a profound way.”

—Activist

A mother fights for her right to health care. A Guantanamo detainee struggles to heal after wrongful imprisonment. A poet transforms poverty into cultivation in the middle of a Los Angeles street.

Every year, Arts Engine curates and presents a new collection of films through Media That Matters™, the premiere showcase for short films designed to stimulate dialogue and generate so-cial engagement around some of today’s most critical social is-sues. We reach millions of viewers worldwide online, in theaters, on the air, and in other venues. We provide films to educational, nonprofit, social justice and youth groups, and other organiza-tions of influence. Community screenings are followed by facili-tated discussions to promote action. Online, the entire collec-tion of films is streamed through the Arts Engine website and on YouTube, where Media That Matters™ ranks as one of the most viewed nonprofits of all time.

Media That Matters™ also produces workshops for filmmakers, artists and social activists; and publishes a monthly newsletter with information about the arts and social change.

From classrooms to boardrooms, movie theaters to home the-aters, hundreds of events take place every year, igniting action on issues ranging from AIDS in Africa to water rights in Michigan, the youth vote, LGBT issues, peace, sustainability and more.

NUMBERS THAT MATTER

2 MILLION+ • YouTube viewers

per year 100+ • Public screenings

per year 180+ • Films in the Media

That Matters™ collection THOUSANDS• Distributions among

schools, youth groups, film festivals and other organizations

ARTS ENGINE: MEDIA THAT MATTERS™ “We no longer have to rely on major corporations for things to be seen—we have Media That Matters™ to distribute new material and new voices and new points of view.”

—Tim Robbins, Actor

March 2, 2010. University of Florida campus police officers storm the apart-ment of graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong, tasing him three times, then shooting him in the face with an assault rifle. He lost his tongue and jaw. He nearly lost his life.

Later that same year in Gainesville, Florida, Media That Matters™ screened I AM SEAN BELL, a film focusing on racial justice, to bring attention to the local problem of police brutality, as evidenced in the case of Kofi Adu-Brempong. Present to speak about the issue was a representative from the local Coalition Against Police Brutality (CAPB), a group working for citizen review of campus and local police forces. Through the impact of the screening, CAPB generated increased support for its efforts, to help prevent future incidents like the one that nearly killed Kofi Adu-Brempong.

ARCTIC SON In the tiny village of Old Crow, 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle, a father and his son are reunited after almost 20 years apart. They share a name and a bloodline, but the worlds they know and the lifestyles they lead are as different as their respective hometown climates. Stanley Sr. is a hunter, a rugged man of the land steeped in native traditions. Seattle-raised Stanley Jr. immerses himself in hip hop music, video games, and drunken debauched nights. Embedded within this moving father–son story is a larger exploration of the complex relationship.

(A)SEXUAL follows the growth of a community that experiences no sexual attraction. In 2000, David Jay came out to his parents. He was asexual and was fine with it. And he was not alone. Studies show that 1% of the population is asexual. But in a society obsessed with sex, how do you deal with life as an outsider? Combining intimate interviews, verite footage, and animation with fearless humor and pop culture imagery, David and our four other characters grapple with this universal question and the outcomes might surprise you.

DEADLINE Illinois, Fall 2002: Governor George Ryan faces shocking findings about flaws in his state’s capital punishment system that call his long-held beliefs into question. Suddenly, he must make one of the most difficult decisions of his life—to ignore this disturbing evidence, or to trans-form the entire Illinois capital punishment system. The stakes of this decision are the lives of over 170 people, and Ryan’s own political career. And he has only a few months to issue his final decision. DEADLINE captures the ensuing dramatic series of events as they unfold.

ELECTION DAY Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What’s the street-level experience of voters in today’s America? In a triumph of documentary storytelling, ELECTION DAY combines eleven stories—shot simultaneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight—into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers, from South Dakota to Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined on one fateful day to make their votes count.

JOURNEY TO THE WEST examines the roots of traditional Chinese medicine, its incarnation in modern-day China, and its adaptation in the United States. Rare footage of traditional medical practices in the People’s Republic of China is intercut with interviews of some of the leading Chinese medical practitioners here in the United States.

NUYORICAN DREAM chronicles the struggles and aspirations of a New York Puerto Rican fam-ily as they contend with the devastating effects of urban poverty. The film follows Robert Torres, Marta’s eldest son and the only one of his family to finish high school and college. College was supposed to lead to the American Dream, but the experience of transcending class has had the result of alienating Robert from his family.

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION IN AMERICA captures the complexity of being physically bonded to one race and emotionally bonded to another through the lives of three families with transracially adopted children of three different generations, growing up in three different regions of the country. As America struggles to understand and address its own racial history, OUTSIDE LOOKING IN supplies a voice to those directly affected by adoption and explores larger topics facing our society: race, family and identity.

Arts Engine’s Big Mouth Productions was founded in 1997 by Katy Chevigny and Julia Pimsleur to produce provocative, engaging social-issue documentaries. Big Mouth films have covered topics ranging from the criminal justice system to alternative healing. Along the way, we’ve worked with pre-eminent filmmakers like Academy Award winner Ross Kauffmann (BORN INTO BROTHELS), won prestigious awards, gained national recognition and reached audiences in the millions. Here’s a brief look at a few of our Big Mouth films:

2010. Arts E n g i n e r e l e a s e s the docu-

mentary, PUSHING THE ELEPHANT. Through the story of Rose Mapendo, a Congolese refugee separated from her five-year-old daughter Nangabire when violence engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo, the issues of women’s and refu-gee rights are addressed while the long-term and often hidden effects of war are explored.

This film has been used extensively by nonprofits and others advocating for women’s rights, and was pre-sented at the United Nations as part of the 2011 Commission on the Status of Women. It was also screened on Capitol Hill as part of the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA) Coalition, com-prised of more than 100 internation-al non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International.

The film has proven to resonate with audiences and to promote social change at home and over-seas. In the U.S., the IVAWA cam-paign resulted in the presentation of a bill to Congress to end violence against women, which received an overwhelmingly positive response. In Africa, after a screening for the UN Secretary General’s conference to end violence against women, many African women said they were inspired by the film to stand up for their rights and reach out to others.

PUSHING THE ELEPHANT has been broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens series and was viewed by over a million people. It has been screened at over a dozen film festi-vals around the world, including the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

ARTS ENGINE: FILMS

DocuClub is a membership organization for filmmakers that provides monthly screenings of documentaries in progress, followed by group discussions led by leaders in the field. Its goal is to offer vital peer feedback for filmmakers and enable them to perfect their films.

Fiscal Sponsorship enables independent filmmakers and artists to raise funding from various grant-making organizations that require nonprofit status from applicants with non-commercial projects. Additionally, Arts Engine’s fiscal sponsorship program provides filmmakers with a vehicle to offer tax deductions to the individual donors. The program broadens funding options and provides an alternative for independent filmmakers and artists to the complicated process of establishing their own 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporations.

There’s more to our story…

Arts Engine is also a New York-based Production Company, offering a range of work-for-hire services for corporations, non-profits, broadcasters and other organizations.

Through our extensive experience in film and strong network of creative talent, Arts Engine Production Services packages help others to produce original content for multi-platform works including:

• Industrial and Organizational Videos• Commercials and PSAs• Advocacy Videos• Tutorials• Educational Programming

We combine creative, cost-effective solutions with hands-on production at a very early stage to create original work, regardless of scope and budget. We offer a range of production services to filmmakers and organizations such as:

• Concept-to-Completion Production• Casting• Line Production• Location and Insurance Logistics• Production Crews• Budgeting for Domestic and International Projects

PRODUCTION HIGHLIGHTS

• Directed and produced two organizational videos for Johns Hopkins University’s Project Restore: a collabora-tive research study to develop new therapies for neuroim-munologic disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

• Produced PSAs for The National Institute of Mental Health about the rise of depression in men, with director Leslie Weiner.

• Followed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater abroad to produce a film on the company. For this project, we hired crews and coordinated shoots in Russia and New York. We also oversaw editing, assisted with archival research and acted as fiscal sponsor.

CLIENT LIST

• Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

• Johns Hopkins University• Miami Museum of Art• The National Institute of Health• New York University

School of Law—Brennan Center for Justice

• Serena Software• The Sundance Channel• The Teaching Channel• and more...

ARTS ENGINE: FILMMAKER AND PRODUCTION SERVICES

RecognitionBest Business—Green/Non-Profit Award, SXSW [2005]

DEADLINE | produced by Big Mouth Films:• Emmy Award nominee [2005]• CINE Golden Eagle Grand Jury Award [2005]• Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award [2005]

SUN COME UP | premiered at Media That Matters™• Academy Award nominee [2011]

Festival Premieres• Berlin• Human Rights Watch International• IDFA (Amsterdam)• SXSW• Sundance

On the Air• Cinemax• HBO• Independent Lens• LinkTV• NBC• POV• Sundance Channel

Fiscal Sponsorship Projects Following are some notable examples of our many fis-cally sponsored projects:

LEMON• Premiered DOC NYC [2011]GOOD FORTUNE• Emmy Award [2011]ANPO• Premiered Toronto Film Festival [2010]THE LOTTERY• Premiered Tribeca Film Festival [2010]LIONESS• Broadcast premiere, PBS Independent Lens [2009]DREAMING NICARAGUA• Rough-cut screening, IDFA Amsterdam [2009]IN A DREAM• Premiered, SXSW [2008]• Woodstock Film Festival Awards: Best Feature

Documentary and James Lyons Award for Best Editing of a Feature Documentary (given to Zagar and Keiko Deguchi) [2008]

PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL• Tribeca Film Festival Award: Best Documentary

Feature [2008]

In the NewsArts Engine has received exposure in a variety of national and international media including:

• Boston Globe• Chicago Sun Times• Gothamist• Huffington Post• IndieWire• Mother Nature Network• New York Magazine• NPR• NY1• Philadelphia Inquirer• Variety• Yahoo Movies

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STRATEGIC ALLIANCESOver the years, we’ve developed collaborative relationships and strong partnerships with a broad range of donors, sponsors, media and social action organizations. These alliances work together in a synergistic way to leverage the impact of all of our programs. Through the support of our Foundation Donors and Corporate Sponsors, we’re able to continue creating vital works of art as a catalyst for social change; to engage with advocates, artists and educators; and to distribute our work to the communities and organizations that can make the greatest difference worldwide. Supporters have included:

ARTS ENGINE: PROJECTS, PRESS AND PARTNERS

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FILMOGRAPHY

• INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY [1999]

• NUYORICAN DREAM [1999]

• JOURNEY TO THE WEST [2001]

• OUTSIDE LOOKING IN [2001]

• BROTHER BORN AGAIN [2001]

• DEADLINE [2004]

• ARCTIC SON [2006]

• ELECTION DAY [2007]

• PUSHING THE ELEPHANT [2010]

• (A)SEXUAL [2011]

• Adobe Systems• The Bay & Paul Foundation• The Fledgling Fund• The Ford Foundation• Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation• The Harley Film Foundation• HBO• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation• The Nathan Cummings Foundation• National Endowment for the Arts• Netflix• New York State Council on the Arts• NYC Department of Cultural Affairs• The Surdna Foundation• W.K. Kellogg Foundation• YouTube Our Strategic Partners help spread the word about our programs and use our films and material in their work. Partners include:

• Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)• The Center for Social Media• Creative Commons• Human Rights Watch International Film Festival• The Paley Center for Media’s Education Department• POV• School of Visual Arts• Tribeca Film Institute• Witness

As a result of these strategic alliances, our films and associated curricula are able to support and complement the work of various social action organizations, helping them accomplish their objectives and advance their causes.

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